An Essay in defence of the female sex
Subtitle: in which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. : in a letter to a lady
By: written by a lady
Edition: The second edition.
Series: Library of English literature -- LEL 12044
Publisher: Printed for A. Roper and E. Wilkinson ... and R. Clavel ...
Published: 1696
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Women; Early works to 1800
Notes: Sometimes ascribed to an otherwise unidentified "H. Wyatt", on the basis of an autographed, corrected copy, once in the collection of Philip Bliss (Catalogue, pt. 2 (1858) lot 2485). Generally, but erroneously, attributed to Mary Astell (cf. J.E. Norton, "Mary Astell, 1666-1731," The Book-collector, 10 (1961), 61).

"To the most ingenious Mrs. ----- or [!] her admirable Defence ofher sex", in verse (prelim. leaves 11-12) signed: James Drake.

Table of contents: [4] p. at end.